For most people, the first time they ever see a lobster in a tank, they are shocked that they are not red. After all, every time you turn on the television and see someone eating a lobster, it is red, so that must mean that they are all red, right? Wrong!
Lobsters come in various [...]
As more Americans try to find healthier ways to eat in order to improve their diet and overall health; the question comes up of how to make that food palatable. For so long many have used butter, salt, and other unhealthy things to cook and season their food. Now chefs and others are beginning to [...]
If the food that you eat is going to do the job that it is meant to do, then it should be as fresh as possible and of as high a quality as you can afford. On hot summer days when all that you really want to eat is a cool, refreshing salad, then you [...]
Originally associated as being fermented raw fish and rice preserved in salt, sushi has undergone many alterations from the bitter tasting recipes of second century Southeast Asia. Sushi literally translated means sour, but it is not the fish that sour refers to, it is the fermented rice that is used to preserve the fish. The [...]
If you’re looking for a healthy, great, easy raw food appetizer or snack, one of the best raw food recipes I’ve made is for mushrooms stuffed with pesto. You don’t have to be a vegan or raw food enthusiast like me to enjoy these pesto mushrooms. I’ve served them many times as a [...]
If you haven’t done a lot of cooking in your life, it can seem pretty intimidating. Many recipes look really complicated. And of course we’ve all had to taste the results of cooking disasters. Why subject yourself to that?
One of the best reasons to learn to cook is that it gives you more control over [...]
Choosing cookware for your kitchen can be confusing, especially when there are so many different products available on the market. The best option is to buy something that’s of good quality as it should last for a long time; this may mean that your cookware is fairly expensive but you should regard it as an [...]
One of the great things about cast iron cookware is that it can be used on the stove top and the oven. That can make for less mess as you cook.
Your typical one dish meal includes your vegetables, meat and/or grain all in one dish. Most of them are fairly simple to make. The crockpot [...]
Restaurant service staff scheduling is crucial and closely tied to excellent restaurant customer service.
In every way, a balance must be achieved by matching the dining room service labor needs to forecasted business, and I’d like to offer 2 concepts that can improve restaurant dining room service immensely.
The first concept is the “on call [...]
Understanding how wine quality is determined and how that affects the pricing of wine is critical in determining wine quality. Once you have understood the quality, you can purchase the best wine at the best value of your money.
You can use this understanding for when you decide to throw a wine taste party or searching [...]
